Author: Jane Margaret StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Spanish Conscript
Author: Jane Margaret StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Spanish Conscript and His Family. A Tale of Napoleon's Campaign in Russia
Author: Jane Margaret STRICKLANDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Spanish Conscript and His Family
Author: Jane Margaret StricklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
A Handbook of Military Conscription and Composition the World Over
Author: Rita J. SimonPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739167510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book focuses on military conscription in 22 countries that represent the world's regions. The purpose is to shed light on the history, politics, and main events that led to the choice of conscription or professional military forces in the countries under study. While we acknowledge that practical and technological developments played major roles in this choice, we also understand that racial and gender relations, social group and political regime dynamics, regional influences, and international forces also affected military composition and relations to the rest of the society. Through this review, we aim at providing an easy-to-access source of knowledge about military mobilization policies and historical developments as well as the main ideas, politics, and events that shaped them. Through this review, we offer a glimpse on developments that influenced societies and political systems and were reflected in their militaries.
The Conscript
Author: Gebreyesus HailuPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 082144445X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule. Anticipating midcentury thinkers Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire, Hailu paints a devastating portrait of Italian colonialism. Some of the most poignant passages of the novel include the awakening of the novel’s hero, Tuquabo, to his ironic predicament of being both under colonial rule and the instrument of suppressing the colonized Libyans. The novel’s remarkable descriptions of the battlefield awe the reader with mesmerizing images, both disturbing and tender, of the Libyan landscape—with its vast desert sands, oases, horsemen, foot soldiers, and the brutalities of war—uncannily recalled in the satellite images that were brought to the homes of millions of viewers around the globe in 2011, during the country’s uprising against its former leader, Colonel Gaddafi.
Conscription in the Napoleonic Era
Author: Donald StokerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134270097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
This edited volume explores conscription in the Napoleonic era, tracing the roots of European conscription and exploring the many methods that states used to obtain the manpower they needed to prosecute their wars. The levée-en-masse of the French Revolution has often been cited as a ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’, but was it truly a ‘revolutionary’ break with past European practices of raising armies, or an intensification of the scope and scale of practices already inherent in the European military system? This international collection of scholars demonstrate that European conscription has far deeper roots than has been previously acknowledged, and that its intensification during the Napoleonic era was more an ‘evolutionary’ than ‘revolutionary’ change. This book will be of much interest to students of Military History, Strategic Studies, Strategic History and European History.
The Conscript
Author: Erckmann-ChatrianPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Conscript" (A Story of the French war of 1813) by Erckmann-Chatrian. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
The Conscript
Author: Emile ErckmannThe Conscript
Author: Erckmann-ChatrianPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Conscripts and Deserters
Author: Alan I. ForrestPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195059379
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Between the outbreak of war with Austria in 1792 and Napoleon's final debacle in 1814, France remained almost continously at war, recruiting in the process some two to three million frenchmen--a level of recruitment unknown to previous generations and widely resented as an attack on the liberties of rural communities. Forrest challenges the notion of a nation heroically rushing to arms by examining the massive rates of desertion and avoidance of service as well as their consequences on French society--on military campaigns and the morale of armies, on political opinion at home, on the social fabric of local villages, and on the Napoleonic dream of bringing about a coherent and centralized state.